Hip Replacements
After many years of practice, and probably some sort of genetic predisposition, my hips have lost most of their cartilage and my mobility is increasingly impaired. My doctor recommends hip replacement and assures me that I'll be able to continue doing martial arts. He doesn't really know anything about aikido and our rolling and falling practices, let alone break falling. He uses a steel replacement because he says it holds up best for active people and says that Mary Lou Retton does gymnastics and others of his patients are horseback riders. Still, it's hard to imagine an artificial hip holding up and staying put.
Does anyone have experience with hip replacement? Yours or a training partner's? I'd rather have less mobility and what's become "normal" pain and stiffness than not be able to train.
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